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Cognitive Code CEO, Leslie Spring, is seeing his world explode, in a good way. Since the emergence of Siri, the world has awoken to the realities of how artificial intelligence will take on a major role in the way we search and organize our lives. Spring, who’s been building his company to provide the tools for an AI-powered space, is now seeing his work in voice/data recognition and computation taken seriously—very seriously.

How Does It Work?

Cognitive Code CEO, Leslie Spring.

Meet SILVIA, or rather Symbolically Isolated Linguistically Variable Intelligence Algorithms, Cognitive Code’s flagship product. According to the company, SILVIA can interpret speech, text or other input, interact with appropriate applications or operating systems, all the while interacting with the user. What sets SILVIA apart from other AI, speech recognition or other products that she competes with is that the product is not necessarily server-based, operating from the cloud, as an app (yes, running natively on mobile devices too), as part of a network or, if you really want, from a server.

Additionally, the product was made for developers and is not language specific. This is not speech recognition technology, rather uses 3rd party speech recognition solutions (like Nuance, Google Voice) and takes the human language input, converts it into a mathematical algorithm, and decides what needs to be executed, while formulating a response to the user, Spring explained.

“One of the things that seem to be missing from the solutions that are out there is conversation,” said Spring. Right now computers resemble those on Star Trek, taking in user information and spitting out a response or function. Computers of the future would be more interactive and pro-active, like Jarvis, from the popular Iron Man films, Spring said.

How Can You Use It?

Practically, a personal AI system of the future could notice that whenever its user is working late, the user texts his or her spouse to say so. SILVIA can pick up on that and offer to send the text. Coffee orders and times of orders could be recognized—even proactively seeking promotions or deals offered by your favorite coffee bar. All the while, the interaction between you and SILVIA occurs through a conversation, no keyboard required.

Spring, who founded the company in 2007, worked previously at Electronic Arts, Disney and Sony (Tokyo:SNE), heading up graphics and software tools departments. Cognitive Code was a bet that AI would eventually become essential to computing and daily life. Apple’s Siri (NASDAQ:AAPL) product seems to have validated Spring’s forecast.

“Because of Siri and because of our higher visibility we’re getting a lot more incoming business,” he said. The company has been getting a lot of cold calls from potential clients and Spring predicts he will need to expand his still small company. “I think our revenues are going to jump.” Clients already using the company’s services include Northrop Grumman and one of the big three car manufacturers (he would not say which).

At the moment, the company is enjoying funding from an angel investor whom Spring would not name. He said he thinks raising additional funding may be needed in the future, depending on Cognitive Code’s rate of expansion.